Stolen homes, landlord fraud and bank hijacking: how scammers target your property
Having your home stolen may seem like an impossibility, yet every year fraudsters attempt to take hundreds of millions of pounds using sophisticated property scams. Con artists…
Scam ‘hotline’ inundated as fraud measures are beefed up
The police warned recently of a convincing new “friends in need” scam targeting parents. Victims of the scam receive a WhatsApp message from a random number purporting…
Scam ‘hotline’ inundated as fraud measures are beefed up
The police warned recently of a convincing new “friends in need” scam targeting parents. Victims of the scam receive a WhatsApp message from a random number purporting…
Government waves goodbye to billions lost to Covid fraud
A target to recover just £6m of taxpayer money lost to Covid fraud is “inadequate” and investigators have been woefully underfunded, the public spending watchdog has said. The National…
‘Hello Mum’: WhatsApp scam sees fraudsters posing as victims’ children
Fraud police have warned about a new text scam whereby conmen pose as the children of victims to dupe them out of thousands of pounds. Officers said…
Hackers ‘skimming’ bank details from small businesses’ online customers, warns GCHQ
The NCSC said it has seen a spike in the numbers of this type of scam since the pandemic and has been tracking the number of cases…